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Blue Velvet + Homecoming

I Remember Mama: the what-if alternative version of David Lynch's seminal suburban psychodrama, on its 30th anniversary
Read Violet Lucca's column on the blog

ND/NF Interview: Anita Rocha da Silveira

The director of Kill Me Please discusses the varieties of female desire in her reworking of a slasher story
Read Manuel Betancourt's interview on the blog

ND/NF Interview: Kirsten Johnson

Afterimages: the director of Cameraperson on documentary ethics and understanding trauma
Read Sam Adams's interview on the blog

Film of the Week: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

Worlds collide—over and over and over again—in Zack Snyder's drearily epic superfranchise team-up
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Deep Focus: Born to Be Blue

By Michael Sragow
My funny valentine: Ethan Hawke soulfully inhabits a somewhat fictionalized version of Chet Baker in this effective portrait of a jazzman

The Film Comment Podcast: Arnaud Desplechin and Kent Jones

By Film Comment
The director of My Golden Days and My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument talks about imagining a new life for his on-screen double and what makes Richard Curtis's films so irresistible

ND/NF Interview: Pascale Breton

By Manuel Betancourt
La Comédie humaine: the director of Suite Armoricaine talks about her punk rock past and infusing her films with a sense of painterly depth

ND/NF Interview: Omer Fast

By Clara Miranda Scherffig
Total recall: the gallery artist adapts the mindbending Tom McCarthy novel for his first theatrical feature

Jeff Nichols on Midnight Special

By Daniel Eagan
The filmmaker discusses telling stories inside the studio system—and surviving audience feedback cards

Interview: Anna Rose Holmer, Saela Davis & Lisa Kjerulff

By Violet Lucca
After-school special: the director and co-writers of The Fits talking about getting into rhythm with their sui generis film about young dancers

From the Archive

Of Love and the City

By Kent Jones
Perpetually in the vanguard of world cinema, Wong Kar-wai reinvents and reenergizes his aesthetic with each new picture. With In the Mood for Love, his latest variation on a cherished theme, he delves into a universe of understated passions restrained by decorum.

Art of the Real: Standards & Practices

By Paul Arthur
Aesthetic ethics are up for grabs in today's documentary free-for-all

Grishamovies

By Mark Olsen
Darling of the airport novel-reading set, film adaptions of John Grisham's books get appraised by Mark Olsen